The Beatles preparing for
their legendary live concert at Shea Stadium in 1965…
The
Real Deal: The opening tune at Shea in1965…
Shea
Stadium 1965: A HARD DAY’S NIGHT…
Ringo
did ACT NATURALLY, but embedding isn’t allowed (follow this link to check it
out, then come on back to the blog)
TICKET
TO RIDE smoked!!!
HEY,
just go to YouTube and type in “Beatles Shea Stadium 1965” to get the rest of the show…
BEATLES AT SHEA STADIUM AUGUST 15, 1965
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Samuel George Jr., lead singer of the Capitols, who had a 1966 US #7 hit with "Cool Jerk", died in Detroit after being stabbed with a knife during a family argument. He was 39 years old...
Samuel George was the lead vocalist and drummer of “The Caps,” a 1962 R&B group out of the Ann Arbor/Detroit area.
The Caps were “discovered” by former Ann Arbor DJ Ollie McLaughlin when the group performed at a local dance headlined by Ann Arbor’s Barbara Lewis.
Barbara Lewis (born February 9, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter whose smooth style influenced rhythm and blues. Lewis was born in Salem, near Ann Arbor
They signed onto McLaughlin’s Karen label and, in 1963, recorded their single “Dog and Cat/The Kick”—the record was a failure and the group split up
In the mid-1960s, a particularly sexual version a dance called “The Jerk” had become popular in Detroit clubs
—The Detroit version of the dance was called the "Pimp Jerk" and Ralph Julius Jones; who happened to be married to a girl named Alice, who just happened to be the cousin of Motown Records founder and producer Berry Gordy, and who happened to have had Ralph help raise her son who was named Berry after his famous uncle; well, Ralph had written a tune called “Cool Jerk.”
Ralph also just happened to have been one of the “Caps” so the group got back together to do that tune…
The song was recorded at Golden World Studios in Detroit on March 14, 1966 with the legendary Motown house band The Funk Brothers.
3246 West Davison Formerly The Golden World Studios
Though the song was meant to include a horn
accompaniment, the contracted musicians failed to show up for the recording session and their parts were omitted from the track. "Cool Jerk" was released on July 2, 1966 and was a smash hit, reaching as high as #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Billboard R&B charts
The group released eight additional singles after "Cool Jerk", only two of which made the Billboard charts, getting no higher than #65, relegating the group to a One-Hit Wonder. In late 1969, the group broke up for the final time.
Don Storball (vox & guitar) went on to a career in the Higland Park, MI Police Department, and still lives in Detroit. Ralph Julius Jones (vox & writer) died January 21, 2007 of lung cancer. Richard McDougall (vox & keys) died on February 19, 1984 of unknown causes.
Samuel George died March 17, 1982 after he was fatally stabbed in a domestic dispute.
R.I.P. Capitols, You did OK…
NOTE: Gary Rasmussen, Ann Arbor/Detroit Bassman extraordinaire,
played at least one gig with these cats WAY back (like way before The (Dangerous) UP band)…Check out what he has to say about it:
…We were the Citations, and we all had matching outfits…matching vests and stuff, and there was a guy on Detroit radio named Dave Schaeffer, he was actually the program director for CKLW. He would do sock hops on the weekends, so we were like “his band” – he’d drag us along to all these sock hops. It was in a lot of teen kind of clubs and roller skating rinks and those kinda things. People would be skating to the music! A lot of ‘em would be in Canada, like Windsor, Kingsville, kind of close, but within an hour or so of Detroit…Port Huron, Michigan. So we’d play live and he’d spin records and talk, and they’d always have one famous, something-that-was-on-the-radio kind of band, maybe Question Mark and the Mysterians, or one time it was the Capitols. What they would do is, they would come and just lip-synch to their record. So we were playing in Windsor with the Capitols, and they were coming to do their one song, and the record player wasn’t working right, so they asked if we could do that song. I was probably 13 or 14 or something…young! So we played that one song, and they sang it!” –Gary Rasmussen
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1955: Ray Charles hits #2 on the R&B charts with the Atlantic single "I Got A Woman", widely considered the first song to be labeled "soul" -- a blending of R&B and gospel…
1955: Epic Records releases Roy Hamilton's "Unchained Melody", which will climb to #6 on Billboard’s Hot 100, but #1 on the R&B Chart!
The Righteous Brothers would update the song ten years later and take it to #4…
1963: The Beach Boys reach #3 with "Surfin' USA"…
1965: The Rolling Stones were at #1 on the UK singles chart with "The Last Time", the band's third UK #1
1968: Otis Redding has his only Number One hit, "Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay," after his death December 10, 1967 in a plane crash...
1970: 24 year old Tammi Terrell, who teamed up with Marvin Gaye for several Motown hits, died at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia. After she had collapsed in Gaye's arms onstage in 1967, it was discovered that she was suffering from a brain tumor...
2005: Jackson Spires,
Jackson in Ann Arbor with Mique and Piston
drummer and founding member of Blackfoot, died at the age of 53 after suffering a brain aneurysm. The band reached #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August, 1979 with "Highway Song"
March 16: The Best of Times AND The Worst...
March 16th 2012 BREAKING NEWS!!! Longtime West Coast promo pro Jack Ashton has been named VP of Programming, Promotion, Marketing & Artist Booking for www.udetroit.com, an online radio and television site that's based in his hometown of Detroit…
Jack Ashton
Radio & Music trades are taking notice of what's happening @ U Detroit. Jack Ashton is not only Rockin...he is Rollin...
NOTE: Jack is now (3-16-2013) the "Top Dog" at HARDCORE MUSIC...
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In March of 1954, a Harlem vocal group called The Cadillacs released a GREAT ballad about a girl named Gloria and although it was a major Doo-Wop hit at the hops, it never achieved real popularity at the time…
On February 4, 1956, The Cadillacs did enter the Billboard Pop Chart with "Speedo", which will top out at #17 and become a Doo-Wop classic.
Here they are doing Speedo and a few others in this mini-documentary...
SO, WHAT ELSE HAPPENED ON FEBRUARY 4, 1956--THE SAME DAY THAT THE CADILLACS ENTERED THE BILLBOARD CHARTS???
It was on February 4, 1956 when James Brown And The Famous Flames recorded
"Please, Please, Please" at King Studios in Cincinnati.
The single would go on to become a Billboard #5 R&B hit, selling over a million copies, but nine subsequent releases would fail to live up to the success of their debut.
It would take over two years for the group to return to the charts with the #1 R&B hit, "Try Me".
And with that hit, the man who would become “The Godfather of Soul” got the world to think about what’s coming next…
FIFTY-SIX YEARS AGO IN THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK ‘n ROLL…
I met Robby Stawinski shortly after the demise ofthe Detroit band SKY:
The group SKY, featuring Doug Fieger (vocalist and bassist), John Coury (guitarist, keyboardist, and vocalist), and Rob Stawinski (drummer and vocalist) started out as their members finished high school in the Detroit, Michigan area. They earned a local following after serving as an opening act for popular groups such as Jethro Tull, The Who, Joe Cocker, Bob Seger, and The Stooges; and also playing with Traffic numerous times. The group put out two albums on RCA, 1970’s Don't Hold Back (Note: Rob Stawinski did not play on this album) and
1970's Sailor's Delight (both produced in England by the Rolling Stones' producer, Jimmy Miller). Sky broke up shortly aftertheir second album's release.
Shortly after SKY broke up, the incredibly talented Robby Stawinski was drumming around the Ann Arbor/Detroit area with a better than average bar band which went by the name of SATIVA. I met SATIVA, and thereby Robby Stawinski, when they were playing at Ann Arbor’s (Infamous) ODYSSEY LOUNGE. That was in 1971.
With his background of being a member of SKY and the fact that he was operatingso far above the talent level of the rest of SATIVA (although they were a great bar band), it was obvious that Rob wasn’t far from the “Big Time” It wasn’t long before he was out of the bars and touring as the drummer for the British group BADFINGER, touring with Rod Stewart’s Faces, starting in the Spring of 1972
I contacted Rob the other day and was happy to know that he’s doing well. I’d asked, “Rob Stawinski? Sky, Sativa, Badfinger Rob Stawinski?” His reply was simply “Yes, that R.S.”
ROB STAWINSKI—YOU ROCK!!!
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The Beatles preparing for
their legendary live concert at Shea Stadium in 1965…
